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Point: Should Fibrinolytics Be Routinely Administered Intrapleurally for Management of a Complicated Parapneumonic Effusion? Yes  John P. Corcoran, MD,

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1 Point: Should Fibrinolytics Be Routinely Administered Intrapleurally for Management of a Complicated Parapneumonic Effusion? Yes  John P. Corcoran, MD, Najib M. Rahman, DPhil  CHEST  Volume 145, Issue 1, Pages (January 2014) DOI: /chest Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Relative change in chest radiograph pleural opacity by treatment arm in the Multicenter Intrapleural Sepsis Trial 2 study on d 7 vs d 1 and expressed as a percentage of hemithorax occupied. DNase = deoxyribonuclease; t-PA = tissue plasminogen activator. (Reprinted with permission from Rahman et al.5) CHEST  , 14-17DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions


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